Is everyone feeling kicksnow? I still can't feel this stinkin babe at all. Bellys growing so I know the babe is doing ok but wondering if there's other concerns why I wouldn't feel movement yet!!
Not a thing yet! But it's first everything for me, so I'm not expecting much yet. Buuut I fancy myself perceptive about my own body, so I've been concentrating really hard when I'm still sometimes. And then I feel a little bubble...and then inevitably, I rip a pretty good fart. Oh well!
Anyone putting their Christmas tree ð up yet? Think ours will be up by the weekend lol!! X
I cannot even imagine a Christmas tree yet!! Ha! The grumpy American in me is like "no, no Christmas anything until after Thanksgiving," and that's not until November 23rd this year (which is on the early side). The shops are all in fine Christmas gear and have been since just before Halloween. Hrmph.
We also typically get a live tree (rented from a local nursery!), so it can only be inside for a couple weeks, anyway. Excited to finally have room for more than a sad little Charlie Brown tree!!
KItten yes I've been taking my blood sugars for 3 pregnancies now so lots of experience with that. It's given me lots of peace of mind this time around, I am still on s normal diet and even eating lots of carbs and I haven't had any high readings yet. I didn't last time until 20ish weeks so I'd expect similar this time, but I still check because I've heard stories of early 2nd tri diagnosis of GD. As soon as I start getting highs I will take my 2 hr GTT to get a GD diagnosis and then I can be referred to the dietician if I like but I doubt I'll use her.
It's super easy to do and just feels like a pin prick on your finger. But if you're purchasing one without a prescription/insurance to cover it it's expensive. That would be the only downfall in my opinion. Test strips are close to 80 cents each so if you're taking it a couple times a day it adds up.
It's good that your mw wants to be proactive because even slightly high sugars if going unnoticed will pack the pounds on your baby. My sister was a labour and delivery nurse (she's in pediatrics now) but she said she saw lots of moms who were undiagnosed GD and really big babies.
Where I am, test strips are an over the counter thing, so insurance doesn't cover them. Darn things are more expensive than the machine you use!
Reiko, thanks for the insight! I'm kind of assuming insurance wouldn't cover it but I sort of wonder if there might be a way to swing it. (They won't cover ANYTHING homebirth related, so I'm irritated enough.)
Viera, thanks for the additional insight! And I'd missed that you're in Oregon too!!! Yay!
Viera so expensive! Between opks, hpts, diclectin, and GD supplies this baby will have cost me a fortune by the time they arrive XP
Hope you all have a restful weekend!! I *think* I felt baby move tonight... counting down 39 days till I get to see the creature in there!!
And tomorrow is Nov 11.... Lest we forget xx
I keep reading "GD" as a swear and then I have to remind myself that it's not just an abbreviated curse. But yes. I had finally almost started using OPKs (it seemed like a waste! I hadn't ovulated in a year! And then finally had a late one the month before we conceived), and I am that weirdo who took a single pregnancy test and called it good, but boy...trying to err on the safe side with blood sugar could make up for it. Actually, heck, all the acupuncture totally already has. What's money for, anyway.
::falls down a google hole:: Ah, Remembrance Day is like our Memorial Day in May, then! But it's interesting that these November ones are timed the same.
I work with at least four veterans (two fairly young, two much older) and am so glad that folks always remember to thank them. Except inevitably someone does on Memorial Day, too, and they say "that's very kind except we're not dead."
